In times of strife, it is good to know who your friends are. So, in the absence of support from traditional allies such as France and Germany, it will come as welcome news to British troops in the Gulf this week that when the going gets tough, Azerbaijan is right behind them.
The landscape after the battle, in a conquered country, does not smile on a warm morning of freedom. Instead, there begins a rat-infested twilight, and many of the rats are human.
They call themselves the ”awkward squad” and their questions to the generals running the war in Iraq are starting to divide the sceptical press from their more loyal United States colleagues.
The first attempt to deliver aid to the Iraqi people was, in all respects, a practical and logistical disaster.
Klipdrift and Monty Python fuelled one of Lemmer’s rooinek chommies in his creative tribute to this week’s dizzy political shenanigans. Disgruntled Voter (DV) walks into a New National Party office in the evening on polling day, 2004. An NNP worker (NNPW) is at the front desk, looking distraught…
Baggage, the psychological debris that we accumulate and carry through our lives, is the great emotional bogeyman. Our baggage defines us. It is the past that shapes our futures.
It is unlikely, argues Martin Woollacott, that Bush’s military pre-emptive doctrine will be acceptable in other situations.
Several hundred Iraqis have fled their homes to escape the conflict and Iraqi officials say 350 people have died in air raids since the start of the war.
Kenya handed over a suspected member of the al-Qaeda terror network to United States officials on Wednesday and identified him as Suleiman Abdalla Salim Hemed.
While World Boxing Organisation (WBO) heavyweight champion Corrie Sanders’s management team is still keenly in pursuit of a unification bout against International Boxing Federation (IBF) champ Chris Byrd, the WBO bosses themselves have thrown a spanner in the works.